Have you ever thought of making a copy of your PowerPoint slides to Word? How do you do that? How do you copy a PowerPoint slide to Word? To answer this question, you must first know how you want your slides to look on Word.

For presenters who use PowerPoint and would like to keep track of their time, it’s not enough that there is a clock on the wall or that he or she is wearing a watch. What if the clock is behind you as the presenter or what if it gets too distracting to be looking at your watch every few minutes? This won’t look good in front of your audience at all. It would seem like you’re rushing through your presentation.

As professional speakers, it is important that you grow your personal brand. Social media can help you in this aspect. Through the utilization of various social media accounts, you can convey your message to your target market and meet like-minded people as well.

Below are three things you can do to help grow your brand as a professional speaker:

As speakers, of course we all want our speeches to be interesting, exciting and stimulating. But then it’s always easier said than done. Below are 5 tips you can apply to make your speech more attention-grabbing.

1. Open Hot, Close Hotter.

Because the first and last few seconds of the speech is most crucial, speakers should always open and end with a bang.

2. Get the Inside Scoop.

If your speech is for a specific set of clients, you can get the inside scoop on them to make your speech more tailored according to their needs. How do you do this? –> By interviewing the attendees’ family members and colleagues. This way, the speaker gets the inside scoop or stories to what makes the attendees tick. Your audience will surely enjoy them.

3. Try Inside-Out Speaking.

This is the opposite of writing speeches for you to read. Instead, make the speech more conversational where there are questions you ask your audience to draw out their thoughts and ideas.

4. Provide Magic Moments.

What are these magic moments? Speeches should be humorous, dramatic, profound, or poignant such that the audience can tell their friends about your speech later or relive it in their memory.

5. Avoid Borrowed Stories.

Be original and creative with your stories. Avoid using another person’s stories as much as possible. But if you can’t, then be sure to credit the original owner.

It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been doing public speaking for a while now or you’re just starting out. You need to be able to market yourself constantly in order to attract a steady stream of speaking engagements, ergo, income. You have to be able to sell yourself. So how do you do that? Below are four key marketing practices you should try:

Film your speech. – Have someone record your speaking engagements so you can later upload it to YouTube and your other social networks. You can also present it to potential clients when you market yourself so they’ll see how good you are and what you can offer to the table.

Create your own category. Be your own brand. Know what sets you apart from all the other speakers and leverage on that.

Maintain a source for more information. Create your own blog and update it regularly. This way, both current and potential clients will get to know you through the personality you exude on your blog, and hopefully like what they read that they eventually hire you.

Be seen and heard. Be active on Facebook and twitter and all the social networking sites. Write-ups in magazines and newspapers will help you a lot too.

I’m pretty sure a lot of you have already been practicing these things so just keep that up. For those of you who haven’t yet, it’s about time that you make an extra effort to put yourself out there. Doing so will spell the different between having a fully booked calendar and an empty schedule.

Isn’t it ironic that in order for you to look authentic when you speak in front of your audience, you have to rehearse your presentation? In order to appear true to your audience (and not the nervous wreck you are deep down especially if you are a first time public speaker), you have to keep practicing until every move you make up there on stage feels natural for you, whether it be walking a few steps forward, pointing your hand on the screen, doing your little mannerisms, etc. Indeed, it’s ironic, but it’s crucial.

Nick Morgan explains this in his blog post, Can you fake authenticity? Body language quick take #10. Being authentic is being genuine. This is displayed when the person speaking in front of us is consistent in his/her message accompanied by a confident and relaxed body language.

Having said this, and believeing this to be true, I do wonder how J.K. Rowling did it when she spoke at a Harvard Commencement in 2008.

I watched her video again and it amazes me how easily she entertained her audience, making them laugh and listen to her all throughout her 20 minutes up there in the podium. Of course it helps that SHE is the first ever billionaire author, but still, I am inclined to think that she did her fair share of rehearsing this speech of hers at home.

So, just keep rehearsing until you feel confident enough to speak in public. Having practiced your lines and your gestures is still better than to not have practiced at all.